In the mirror of your paper you will discover your identity as an artist.

After a few thousand watercolors you will find that you have fallen in love with paper and paint.

Overlapping shapes are a safer indication of depth than is linear perspective.

The audience is astonishingly friendly and tolerant of even the slightest dab, but is limited in its willingness to look either deeply or at length.

Texture is most evident where dark meets light on the turning edge and at the outer edge. Experience has taught us to assume that the areas in between have similar features.

We see light, not dark. But it is in the dark that we feel goblins and ghosts.

Tension is anticipation and uncertainty. Every art has to have it.

Emotion doesn't have to be happiness.

All is measured by that relative term, quality. It is in this search for quality that the artist is, of necessity, the eternal student.

The painting is usually finished before you are.

There are souls that can't encounter to each other.

Hope and carbohydrates were a powerful combination.

If a leader works hard to break the spirit of their Soldier they'll soon meet the most focused Soldier of a career.

Keep all special thoughts and memories for lifetimes to come. Share these keepsakes with others to inspire hope and build from the past, which can bridge to the future.

I am a Maoist sympathiser. I'm not a Maoist ideologue, because the communist movements in history have been just as destructive as capitalism.

Apocalypses don't happen very often. They tend to be separated by tens or even hundreds of millions of years.

Only that, nothing more - a tiny beam of light to show some hidden aspect of reality, to help decipher and understand it and thus to initiate, if possible, a change in the conscience of some readers.

Music is for theater like theater is for scripts. It's total: it's cyclical.

You should paint those visions of paradise rather than just talking about them.

There is a lot of talk about a centre party - and that I might lead it. I find this idea profoundly unattractive